posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:23 PM
by
demiliani
Visual Studio 2005 new Betas...
Wonderful... the first Beta of Visual Studio 2005 is out and ready to download... 
In addition, the new Visual Studio 2005 Express Products are also now available to download. The available products are::
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Great idea this Express Family... it's a lightweight set of tools for developers that must be seriously evaluated.
Little note on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition:
- Support for XCopy style deployment
- No workload governor
- Support for databases up to 4Gb in size
- Support for up to 50 instances
- Only supports 1 processor
- Only supports 512 Mb of RAM (ERROR: Maximum 1 GB addressable RAM, not 512... sorry!)